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  2. Chinese character forms - Wikipedia

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    The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. [12] Chinese character structures include: Single-component structure: The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口 , 日 and 月 .

  3. Chinese character structures - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character external structure is on how the writing units are combined level by level into a complete character. There are three levels of structural units of Chinese characters: strokes, components, and whole characters. [3] For example, character 字 (character) is composed of two components, each of which is composed of three stokes:

  4. Chinese character components - Wikipedia

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    The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. [4] Chinese character structures include [5] Single-component structure: The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口, 日 and 月.

  5. Chinese character internal structures - Wikipedia

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    The character-building units obtained by analyzing the external structure of Chinese characters are external structural components. In internal structures, Chinese characters are analyzed according to the rationale of character formation, and the basic unit of character formation is internal structural components, or internal components in short, also called pianpang (偏旁) or characters ...

  6. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. [47] Chinese character structures include: Single-component structure (i.e., a non-decomposable character): The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口, 日 and 月.

  7. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  8. Chinese whole characters - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese whole character, or whole Chinese character (simplified Chinese: 汉字整字; traditional Chinese: 漢字整字; pinyin: hànzì zhěngzì), is a complete Chinese character. It lies at the final level of the stroke-component-character Chinese character composition.

  9. Chinese character classification - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters are logographs, which are graphemes that represent units of meaning in a language. Specifically, characters represent the smallest units of meaning in a language, which are referred to as morphemes. Morphemes in Chinese—and therefore the characters used to write them—are nearly always a single syllable in length.